http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney
University, France mission, marriage, and children: 1965–1975
Romney attended Stanford University during the academic year of 1965–1966.[18] Although the campus was becoming radicalized with the beginnings of 1960s social and political movements, he kept a well-groomed appearance and participated in pre-"Big Game" customs involving the Stanford Axe.[18][29][30] In May 1966, he participated in a counter-protest against a group staging a sit-in at the university administration building in opposition to draft status tests.[18][29]
In July 1966, he left the country for a thirty-month stay in France as a Mormon missionary,[18][31] a traditional rite of passage in his family.[nb 2] He arrived in Le Havre, where he faced physical and economic deprivation in their cramped quarters.[11][33] Rules against drinking, smoking, and dating were strictly enforced.[11] Most individual Mormon missionaries do not gain many converts[nb 3] and Romney was no exception:[33] he later estimated ten to twenty for his entire mission.[38] He became demoralized and later recalled it as the only time when "most of what I was trying to do was rejected."[33] He was promoted to zone leader in Bordeaux in early 1968, and soon thereafter became assistant to the mission president in Paris.[11][33][39] There at the Mission Home, he enjoyed far more comfortable accommodations than before.[39] When the French expressed their opposition to the U.S. role in the Vietnam War, it reinforced Romney's support for it, and he debated them in return.[11][33]
In June 1968, an automobile he was driving in southern France was hit by another vehicle, seriously injuring him and killing one of his passengers, the wife of the mission president.[nb 4] Romney was not at fault in the accident.[nb 4] He became co-president of the mission, which met a goal of 200 baptisms for the year, the most for them in a decade.[40] By the end of his stint in December 1968, he was overseeing the work of 175 others.[33][41] As a result of his stay in France, Romney developed a lifelong affection for France and its people, and speaks French.[43]
At their first meeting following his return, Romney and Ann Davies reconnected and decided to get married.[44] Romney began attending Brigham Young University (BYU), where she had been studying.[45] The couple married on March 21, 1969, in a civil ceremony in Bloomfield Hills.[46][47] The following day, they flew to Utah for a Mormon wedding ceremony at the Salt Lake Temple (Ann had converted to the faith while he was away).[46][47]
Mitt had missed much of the tumultuous American anti-Vietnam War movement while away in France. Upon his return, it surprised him to learn that his father had joined the movement during his unsuccessful 1968 presidential campaign.[33]George was now serving in President Richard Nixon's cabinet as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. In a June 1970 newspaper profile of children of cabinet members, Mitt said that U.S. involvement in the war had been misguided – "If it wasn't a political blunder to move into Vietnam, I don't know what is" – but supported Nixon's ongoingCambodian Incursion as a sincere attempt to bring the war to a conclusion.[48] At that time there was a military draft; Romney had initially received two 2-S student deferments, then, like most Mormon missionaries, a 4-D ministerial deferment while in France, and then two more student deferments.[29][49] When those ran out, the result of the December 1969 draft lottery ensured he would not be selected.[29][49][50]
At culturally conservative BYU, Romney remained isolated from much of the upheaval of the late 1960s/early 1970s era.[33][45]Romney became president of the all-male Cougar Club booster organization and showed a new-found discipline in his studies.[33][45]During his senior year, he took a leave to work as driver and advance man for his mother Lenore Romney's eventually unsuccessful 1970 campaign for U.S. Senator from Michigan;[24][46] together, they visited all 83 Michigan counties.[51][52] He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with highest honors, in 1971,[45] giving commencement addresses to both the College of Humanities and to the whole of BYU.[nb 5]
The Romneys' first son, Taggart, was born in 1970[35] while they were undergraduates at BYU and living in a basement apartment.[45]Ann subsequently gave birth to Matthew (1971) and Joshua (1975). Benjamin (1978) and Craig (1981) would arrive later, after Romney began his business career.[35]
Mitt Romney wanted to pursue a business path, but his father advised him that a law degree would be valuable to his career even if he did not become a lawyer.[55][56]Thus, he enrolled in the recently created joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration four-year program coordinated between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.[57] He readily adapted to the business school's pragmatic, data-driven case study method of teaching.[56] Living in a Belmont, Massachusetts, house with Ann and their two children, his social experience in college differed from most of his classmates.[46][56] He was nonideological and did not involve himself in the political issues of the day.[46][56] He graduated in 1975 cum laude from the law school, in the top third of that class, and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five percent of his business school class.[53][57]
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